that no matter what, when you sacrifice control for convenience there is always going to be a chance that someone is going to poke around your stuff. It's a risk of the business.
From the responses I've read to your post you're taking a lot of crap. I'm a high school teacher and a parent of three sons. All I want to say is that we need more parents like YOU.
Thank you for doing the best you can with your kids. There are way too many parents that do not.
So what you are saying is that it's complete freedom to use OSS... as long as you do what we want you to, the way we want you to do it, and when we want you to do it?
I strongly take exception to the view that we were economically strongest during America's slavery or chain gang periods. Would you kindly post links to GDP or any other statistics to substantiate your claim? America by the way has seen it's highest periods of growth and wealth following major European wars.
Yes I have but given the past performance I tend to think it is unlikely. Of course I didn't ask him about it and wouldn't unless the grade were bad:-)
I use readnotify. Not on every email, but some important ones. Since I have to deal with continuing education and am constantly taking classes I find that readnotify is useful for covering my ass.
True story, I took an online course in Fall 07. I submitted my final to the prof. via email at his request. Neither the email or the attachment was ever opened and readnotify is extremely reliable for this particular prof. I still got a 4.0 so I'm not complaining.
I followed the links after RTFA and ended up on Doctorows website, Started reading the blurb on his book "Little Brother", downloaded the palm ebook and purchased the audio book. I can't tell if I'm really interested in the book or if I just fell for the most frakin clever slashvertisement of all time.
How the hell did you get modded insightful? Laws are not the exclusive province of those that would restrict freedom. The jailing of a murderer GRANTS freedom to the entire non-murdering portion of the population by GRANTING them the freedom to walk in public without fear of getting killed.
Women are free to walk at night because the jailing of the rapist GRANTS that freedom. Society BAR is the society only a maroon (nods to previous genius) would support.
I am a teacher. Those "impartial" textbooks you mention are a lot of things but impartial is not one of them. Pick up a given history book and you see an awful lot of bias and authors perspective. Pick up any physics book, biology and just about any other science book and you will find that the author has imbued it with their own special brand of scientific explanation or ideas.
I've always found that most of the mistakes that I have seen made or made myself were caused by moments of brain INACTIVITY (e.g. Hey y'all watch this)
Free will is not inherently quantifiable. Much like other forces it can not be observed directly. An example is a soldier who willingly lays his body on a grenade. This action is decidedly not in the soldiers best interest yet that is still the choice that is made. We're quite ready to accept the presence of dark matter without even so much as a standard definition of what it is never mind direct evidence of it. Why is it so difficult to accept that this is true for free will as well? Free will IMHO is a process of thinking and not so much a thing in and of itself. We process information and choose a course of action based on whatever mitigating factors are in our value systems.
I disagree. Given the assumption that God exists outside of time where he perceives all things to happen at once has nothing to do with free will. In your example God wouldn't be telling you what decision you would make in the future because, to Him, you have already made that decision and the outcome of that decision was already experienced by God in what you might call an "infinite now" (read: the closest thing God experiences to a past) What you are really describing is postcognition (as opposed to precognition) and heck even I can do that in a small way. You retain the will to choose what you want to choose. The virtue of being able to have already seen your chosen act does not in any way impact your ability to choose that act initially.
Uh. No. I mentioned in an earlier response that I am a teacher. Not to brag but I am an award winning one at that. You do not seem to understand the purpose of the notes else you wouldn't focus on the lecture. Notes are there to highlight important things that will likely be assessed at a later point. Facts and such are those things that are assessed.
Textbooks aren't very illuminating because textbooks can not paraphrase or realize that the reader isn't getting a good understanding. That is why we have lectures... to paraphrase and assess understanding as well as many other things such as adding to the text.
I never claimed anything mechanical about lecturing at all - you probably didn't RTFA and apparently didn't read my post either because your assessment of my post is wildly inaccurate based on what I actually said. Think about it for just a second - if the notes contained volumes of things that aren't likely to be assessed than that is a sign of poor note taking skills not a poor lecture.
Yes I agree that a student is capable of writing a reflection of the knowledge of the instructor. The instructor that taught was also at one time a student too whose instructor did that for him. The fact that knowledge as expressed as a fact is NOT copyrightable seems to have escaped you. Only the specific presentation of that knowledge is copyrightable. Secondly I did not assume anything about lecutres being "statement of facts" the notes usually are. I'm a highschool teacher and I can absolutely promise that my lectures aren't just rote fact repetition. I acknowledge that the knowledge I have is directly releated to the learning that other people have done along with my own discoveries added along. I teach to make high quality IT people - not to make an extra buck off of the knowledge that I'm already being paid to distribute. You might like splitting hairs and in this case I think the hair is decidedly too thin to split. The lecturer is being paid at the public expense since he is at a public institution. The taxpayers have offered and he has agreed to distribute his knowledge for the purpose of educating. Your claim that the lecture may or not be factual is complete void of substance because the lecture isn't at the root of the debate - the students notes are and like it or not they are more than likely factual tidbits expected to be on a test.
There are only so many ways that one can say "Beavers build dams." Given that notes are brief statements of fact by definition I can not see how the notes can be considered derivative as they are nothing more than statements of fact in most cases. There might be a small case if the entire lecture were recorded verbatim and then sold as such but there isn't a college student within a gazillion miles that will write that much that fast. This seems analogous to the evening news where simply repeating facts regardless of the source represents no copyright infringement. My favorite quote from TFA is
But James Sullivan, Faulkner Press' attorney, says the suit isn't about money for the professors, it's about protecting its intellectual property. followed at the end of the article by
The lawsuit seeks any profits made off of the Moulton study guides.
I should have been more specific. XP and Vista were the two platforms I was referring too. Even if an app is easy to port the devs are still stuck supporting two platforms for a time as of yet undetermined. I was just being sympathetic to the devs out there. I'm not a dev myself, and I am one of those kool-aid drinking Linux fanboys that doesn't actually use Windows or Os X.
Microsoft sees a need to maintain a presence in the low-cost hardware market.
Vista isn't going to do it and Windows Mobile is less than satisfying. XP is Microsofts only offering that can be squeezed onto machines that otherwise might have been exclusively Linux powered. I think this sucks for developers more than anything in that effectively Microsoft is asking them to support two platforms.
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They seem to think that a paycheck is better else they would still be farmers.
that no matter what, when you sacrifice control for convenience there is always going to be a chance that someone is going to poke around your stuff. It's a risk of the business.
From the responses I've read to your post you're taking a lot of crap. I'm a high school teacher and a parent of three sons. All I want to say is that we need more parents like YOU.
Thank you for doing the best you can with your kids. There are way too many parents that do not.
So what you are saying is that it's complete freedom to use OSS... as long as you do what we want you to, the way we want you to do it, and when we want you to do it?
Sounds like freedom to me.
I strongly take exception to the view that we were economically strongest during America's slavery or chain gang periods. Would you kindly post links to GDP or any other statistics to substantiate your claim? America by the way has seen it's highest periods of growth and wealth following major European wars.
hafe to hide der data in der chickens or dey'll be bork bork borked!
Yes I have but given the past performance I tend to think it is unlikely. Of course I didn't ask him about it and wouldn't unless the grade were bad :-)
I use readnotify. Not on every email, but some important ones. Since I have to deal with continuing education and am constantly taking classes I find that readnotify is useful for covering my ass.
True story, I took an online course in Fall 07. I submitted my final to the prof. via email at his request. Neither the email or the attachment was ever opened and readnotify is extremely reliable for this particular prof. I still got a 4.0 so I'm not complaining.
I followed the links after RTFA and ended up on Doctorows website, Started reading the blurb on his book "Little Brother", downloaded the palm ebook and purchased the audio book. I can't tell if I'm really interested in the book or if I just fell for the most frakin clever slashvertisement of all time.
I didn't say anything about the GPL. I side with Linus on this issue - GPL2 is good. GPL3 not so much. No one is asking to be able to rip off devs.
How the hell did you get modded insightful? Laws are not the exclusive province of those that would restrict freedom. The jailing of a murderer GRANTS freedom to the entire non-murdering portion of the population by GRANTING them the freedom to walk in public without fear of getting killed.
Women are free to walk at night because the jailing of the rapist GRANTS that freedom. Society BAR is the society only a maroon (nods to previous genius) would support.
MOD points hell! Where can I send you money! That was the funniest thing I've read in weeks!
I am a teacher. Those "impartial" textbooks you mention are a lot of things but impartial is not one of them. Pick up a given history book and you see an awful lot of bias and authors perspective. Pick up any physics book, biology and just about any other science book and you will find that the author has imbued it with their own special brand of scientific explanation or ideas.
I've always found that most of the mistakes that I have seen made or made myself were caused by moments of brain INACTIVITY (e.g. Hey y'all watch this)
You are spot on. How else does one compete against a monopoly? OSS is the perfect market response to a serious lack of customer options.
news why? Seriously did we really need to be told that?
Free will is not inherently quantifiable. Much like other forces it can not be observed directly. An example is a soldier who willingly lays his body on a grenade. This action is decidedly not in the soldiers best interest yet that is still the choice that is made. We're quite ready to accept the presence of dark matter without even so much as a standard definition of what it is never mind direct evidence of it. Why is it so difficult to accept that this is true for free will as well? Free will IMHO is a process of thinking and not so much a thing in and of itself. We process information and choose a course of action based on whatever mitigating factors are in our value systems.
I disagree. Given the assumption that God exists outside of time where he perceives all things to happen at once has nothing to do with free will. In your example God wouldn't be telling you what decision you would make in the future because, to Him, you have already made that decision and the outcome of that decision was already experienced by God in what you might call an "infinite now" (read: the closest thing God experiences to a past) What you are really describing is postcognition (as opposed to precognition) and heck even I can do that in a small way. You retain the will to choose what you want to choose. The virtue of being able to have already seen your chosen act does not in any way impact your ability to choose that act initially.
So say we all.
Uh. No. I mentioned in an earlier response that I am a teacher. Not to brag but I am an award winning one at that. You do not seem to understand the purpose of the notes else you wouldn't focus on the lecture. Notes are there to highlight important things that will likely be assessed at a later point. Facts and such are those things that are assessed.
Textbooks aren't very illuminating because textbooks can not paraphrase or realize that the reader isn't getting a good understanding. That is why we have lectures... to paraphrase and assess understanding as well as many other things such as adding to the text.
I never claimed anything mechanical about lecturing at all - you probably didn't RTFA and apparently didn't read my post either because your assessment of my post is wildly inaccurate based on what I actually said. Think about it for just a second - if the notes contained volumes of things that aren't likely to be assessed than that is a sign of poor note taking skills not a poor lecture.
Yes I agree that a student is capable of writing a reflection of the knowledge of the instructor. The instructor that taught was also at one time a student too whose instructor did that for him. The fact that knowledge as expressed as a fact is NOT copyrightable seems to have escaped you. Only the specific presentation of that knowledge is copyrightable. Secondly I did not assume anything about lecutres being "statement of facts" the notes usually are. I'm a highschool teacher and I can absolutely promise that my lectures aren't just rote fact repetition. I acknowledge that the knowledge I have is directly releated to the learning that other people have done along with my own discoveries added along. I teach to make high quality IT people - not to make an extra buck off of the knowledge that I'm already being paid to distribute. You might like splitting hairs and in this case I think the hair is decidedly too thin to split. The lecturer is being paid at the public expense since he is at a public institution. The taxpayers have offered and he has agreed to distribute his knowledge for the purpose of educating. Your claim that the lecture may or not be factual is complete void of substance because the lecture isn't at the root of the debate - the students notes are and like it or not they are more than likely factual tidbits expected to be on a test.
My favorite quote from TFA is But James Sullivan, Faulkner Press' attorney, says the suit isn't about money for the professors, it's about protecting its intellectual property. followed at the end of the article by The lawsuit seeks any profits made off of the Moulton study guides.
I should have been more specific. XP and Vista were the two platforms I was referring too. Even if an app is easy to port the devs are still stuck supporting two platforms for a time as of yet undetermined. I was just being sympathetic to the devs out there. I'm not a dev myself, and I am one of those kool-aid drinking Linux fanboys that doesn't actually use Windows or Os X.
Microsoft sees a need to maintain a presence in the low-cost hardware market.
Vista isn't going to do it and Windows Mobile is less than satisfying. XP is Microsofts only offering that can be squeezed onto machines that otherwise might have been exclusively Linux powered. I think this sucks for developers more than anything in that effectively Microsoft is asking them to support two platforms.
I agree with you.